Horse Sense....
You know why I love Az?
He's bloody hilarious.
Not only does he have the most fantastic sense of humour, but he is full of love and you know, also knows stuff. Like today.
He binged on baleage and then got sugar hooves again.
So what did he do?
He put himself in a paddock separate from the others, shut the gate behind him and then stood at the gate waiting for me.
Psssssssssst...Tarns...over here...
Yes...
You need to go get me that stuff.
Silence.
For my hooves.
Then he looked at me and lifted a hoof.
Love. Love. Love.
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So my new thing is Chicken cuddles.
Well, to be fair it is more of one chicken and a stroke.
And it goes like this:
When I got the chook house I got 6 chickens to go with the original ones of Pat (the Rooster) and Chuck (the Chicken). All six assimilated really well. Not so much the last three I got. Well, two. Geraldine the Blue Lace with extra long neck, looks like Lily, so she's all good. However, Marmite is black and the chickens are a bit unsure of her and Ossie, well, she's all fluffy and doesn't look much like a chicken at all, so no one seems to know what to do with her. So Marmite and Ossie are on the outer.
And I'm a sucker for the underdog, or in this case, underchicken, so everytime I see them I feed them.
Which means that Ossie, everytime she sees me come out onto the deck, runs over, stands next to me, and starts chatting away.
So now I've decided I want to give her a cuddle.
To be fair, she's not 100% keen, but tonight I cornered her in the chook house and had a stroke. Ossie was then quite keen on the idea and did, what I can only describe as, hand on hoof, chicken purring.
There was a bit of a ker-fluffle after I left, but I yelled out to everyone to keep it down and just went inside.
In hindsight, maybe I should have checked.
Anyway, while I'm waiting for Mr Peacock to come make an appearance, I'm going to Chicken cuddle.
What I will say though is that Ossie doesn't even really sound like a chicken. Her vibration, depth, sound and even her words, are different.
I know, right? Go figure.
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Woke up to a bloody dead mouse in my kitchen again.
Left it there while I went about making my bed, turning on jug for cuppa and just normal things, then came back to put carcass outside.
In which case the bloody thing had come back from the dead and was looking at me, wiggling away.
O.M.F.G.
I then could not kill it.
Well, the bloody thing was looking at me while trying to get free and was like, Tarnz, mate, help me out here...got a family, wife, 3 kids...
I just took him outside and let him out in the bushes, with the stern words of, And don't come back in the house!
God, I'm such a soft cock some days.
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And Boo-ba-licious is getting the snip.
Since I've taken Ralphy poo out he is constantly getting up to no good. Today he was humpy, horny, needy and pissed off - a bad combination no matter what species you are.
He then ripped Az's jacket off and tried to push him into our pond. I personally think he was trying to shag him, but you know, it could have been a double whammy. Anyway, peeps that know stuff have said it's time.
I called our lovely Vet and it is now in the process.
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So that's been our week:
Connecting into Source, finding our Zen and organising snip snipping Boo-ba-licious.
Of which everyone is super happy about...apart from Boo.
Big hugs and horsey kisses from us here, to you there.
Caps, me, Spirit, Az, Ralph, Chew, Suz, and of course, my beautiful Mumma Bear, Belle and Boo-ba-licious, Pat, Chuck, Rose, Petal, Kai-Anne, Pepper, Lily, Shelley, Ossie, Marmite and Geraldine.
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* A huge Hola! to the Boss chick at www.hairproductsonline.co.nz who once again, and I have no idea how she consistently does this, got my hair products to me within 36 hours. One day and a half.
From bloody Christchurch!
The half a day extra was because I ordered at 4.45pm the day of Lockdown.
Normally it is next morning.
** And on a Oh no you didn't!! thumbs down to the New Zealand horse company who charged $170 for a product that we love and use here, then sneakily changed it by adding a cheaper and not good product with it.
And the only reason I found out was I tried the new packet myself, before I fed to horses (just the way it worked out) and went, WTF is this?
It is a substandard product and absolutely, 100%, will not, give you the results you want.
It will not work.
Shame. Shame. Shame. On you.
That's the last money you'll see from me, I sourced another supplier last night, and as I'm writing this, an ethically strong company, is sending their product to our home.
Knowing that it is for horses, and professional elite horses though, I just can't get my head round how you could do that.
So let me just leave you with what Mumma would say...And you can fuck right off.